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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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Cause Camp 2021 Speaker Line-Up

NonProfit Hub

Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. But this is your chance to learn tips and tricks from some of the best minds in the sector. We are excited to announce the Cause Camp 2021 speaker line-up!

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When your online donors and advocates see that your nonprofit uses.NGO or.ONG for your website URL and email addresses, there will be no doubt in their minds that your nonprofit is legal because your nonprofit must complete a validation process via OnGood to be able to use the domain s. Think about that for a second or two. United States.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

In contrast is the middle third, who are typically helpful and service-minded—but with a caveat. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. This invaluable third focuses not on what they as individuals want to do but instead asks: “What can I do to help?”

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. We’d love to meet you there!

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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Qgiv

While you’re wearing and shopping, it’s important to keep in mind that in recent years, the “pinkification” of Breast Cancer Awareness Month has become an important issue due to companies who make pink product packaging during the awareness month but still manufacture and sell products that are linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.

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Goodwill is Leading Efforts to Help Get 1 Million People Employed Post-Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

We’re in the business of self-empowerment and helping people find that through employment. So we’re uniquely positioned to address workforce development during this time that it’ so highly relevant across the nation. The rate at which tech is advancing is exponential and we know we have to be technology-minded in our approach.

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